I've never had one of my posts on the Messages of the Week board - strange, given the neverending stream of wisdom and wit which flows from my keyboard, but true..

Until fucking today, that is.

... when my post 15 on this thread became my first representative on that hallowed board - a post which with hindsight portrays me being egocentric, smug, wrong, and totally unaware of the volley of eggs already flying though the air in the direction of my face.

Great. Fantastic. So now even more people will click on that link and see this prime eggsample of my folly and hubris.

Hey, here's an idea, why don't more of you go and +1 that post? Rub it in, why don't you? God knows I deserve it.

I see that Rationalwiki also have an article on WWGHA, which is nice. Who wrote that, I wonder?

I edited that as well, to add the line about Brain being the author.

And I used the word edutainment for the first and hopefully the last time in my life - my excuse being that that's the term used in the HowStuffWorks wiki article. Never again, I promise.

Hey Gnu,

I put that the WWGHA article up over at RW. I used to post here, but I kind of got hooked on the wiki format. Thanks again for your help. I'll link to this thread so we have a bit more background on the origin of the phrase. I wrote the WWGHA amputees article some time ago, so feel free to suggest changes or pop over and update it if it's a bit dated.

I'm currently rewriting the SPAG article, as it had become a bit messy. The new version should be up a little later today. I'm sticking with DTE as the author; it's most solid origin I could find.

I've thought of that debate from time to time. That leads me to ask a different question:

Does history model reality in the same way that the physical sciences do?

Actually it is similar. People find some evidence, put together a model, more evidence is found that does not match that model, the model is changed.

There are differences given that many items are not reproducible, however when the more farfetched the positive claim is, such as "This is the tomb of King Athur" the more independent verification is required. Other physical sciences, such as carbon dating, are used to cross verify things.

Similar to the phyiscal sciences, popular media tends to sensationalize farfetched positive claims with flimsy evidence, as these are more interesting to the general public.

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An Omnipowerful God needed to sacrifice himself to himself (but only for a long weekend) in order to avert his own wrath against his own creations who he made in a manner knowing that they weren't going to live up to his standards.

And you should feel guilty for this. Give me money.

StopComplainingandLive

so it should be called SPOAself projection of atheistism: the belief of nothingbelieve whatever you can see, ignoring the extraordinary, unexplained or unknownatheists are also capable of only hearing and seeing what they wantthis argument is hypocritical and pointless

if your going to create an argument make sure it can be definitive, not simply reverses whatever you or anyone in the world can believe

so it should be called SPOAself projection of atheistism: the belief of nothingbelieve whatever you can see, ignoring the extraordinary, unexplained or unknownatheists are also capable of only hearing and seeing what they wantthis argument is hypocritical and pointless

if your going to create an argument make sure it can be definitive, not simply reverses whatever you or anyone in the world can believe

Welcome to the forum, SCaL.

While there is not a specific rule against it, commenting on a thread that is more than a month or so old is considered "thread necromancy" and discouraged. If this particular topic concerns you, find a more recent discussion that bears on it and comment there.

If God is subjective to you, you are living in your own private world. Subjective means your own personal view. If you are in your own private world no wonder you have no sense God. There is more to the planet earth and the universe than your own private subjective point of view. Although you are an individual, subjectivism is relevant, but if you have no objectivity you do not see the bigger picture. There is more to the universe and human existence than just you. You are a part of it and a valued part of it but you are a part of a grander scheme whether or not you believe in God. We all have a subjective view as to what will make us happy and serve as part of a greater purpose and that is part of the grander perspective. As to if God is only Spag; that is only for those who close themselves off to the bigger world and live only for their personal point of view.